The Dark and The Light-Billy

Lull

B looked at us "You and spike talk to Crawley about the tarot" she said to Jess "if we can understand the tarot we can understand the killer" she then turned to Billy "you and I are going to speak to everyone" she then looked at Leo and me "Hanna, Leo...Sherlock" 

"Sure, tell us what to do" I grumbled, Leo heard me and elbowed me in the side, I rolled my eyes. Leo and I turned away to go find out what we could about Sherlock, we got to the study and Leo pulled out some sort of box 

"Here it is" Leo announced 

"What is it?" I asked looking at the box that had many different  symbols 

"A puzzle box," he told me and he started to fidget with the different combinations, we sat there for a moment twisting and turning different things 

"Hey," a voice said, I turned around to see B standing in the doorway

"Hey," Leo smiled at her

"This is sherlock's room?" B asked in amazement "what do you think happened to him?" 

"We think something destroyed him," I told her flatly   

"I just want this night to be over," she said walking around and looking at all of the papers 

"More of a morning person?" Leo asked she nodded and laughed "weird, I never trust morning people, everything fun that happens, happens after dark, name me one fun thing that happens before lunch" 

"Breakfast" B answered 

"Breakfast isn't fun," Leo told her "it's basically for fuel, lunch and dinner are for pleasure you take your time with them" I stood up and walked out the door because there was a bit of a vibe in the room and it wouldn't be appropriate to be in the same room as them, I stood behind the door and watched them continue to talk about food, suddenly a hand was placed on my shoulder and I almost screamed 

"God Billy, give me a warning next time" I scoffed turning and going to walk back down the stairs 

"Ok, what is your problem?" Billy asked angrily 

"You," I said under my breath 

"What was that," he asked 

"I just don't want to be here," I said throwing my hands up "just leave me alone" I walked down the spiral staircase to see if I could find Spike or Jess the only people I could stand being around at the moment. I found the pair of them by a table with Allan, Gustave, and Dion 

"Each card has a meaning," Allan said as I stood next to Jess "energy, it's this the killer is tapping into"

"Can't wait to discover someone posed as that" Spike said looking at a card of a man upsidedown

"Clear your minds" Allan instructed "and become a conduit for their message" 

"I have never once seen you display an iota of insight," Dion said sounding amused "prove me wrong" she sat down on a chair, Allan put his hands on the table and closed his eyes 

"There's a powerful vibration" Allan announced "a movement, please don't," he said as Jess lunged and touched the stack of cards but ended up touching Allan's hand in the process, she gasped 

"You stole this tarot deck," Jess said 

"What?" Allan chuckled and Dion leaned forward intrigued "Jessie?" 

"You went to visit your uncle when you were younger, you wanted to be like him, read the cards like him when you walked in he was on the floor he was having a heart attack" Jess was breathing heavily "so you stole these cards"

"Well he was dying," Allan said "he was almost dead, there was nothing I could have done" 

"You have the vision" Dion gasped looking at Jess 

"My god" Allan whispered he looked at Jess's writs that had a butterfly "the girl is an ipsissimus" 

"Mr.Bannaster, go and find Mr.Breakwater immediately, please," Dion said, this was overwhelming Jessie, I could feel it. Spike pushed both Jess and me behind him as Allan stood up

"What's an ipsissimus?" Spike asked 

"An ipsissimus is a true psychic" Dion told him "it means 'powerful one' who can see into the souls of men, one who can change the destiny of the world" 

"She must join the order," Allan said walking forward, Jess grabbed my hand in fear and I clung to it tightly "imagine the seances we could hold, she's extraordinary"

"What are you talking about?" Jess asked "I don't want to be extraordinary, I don't want to be any of those things, I want to be like everyone else"

"well you are not, Jessica, you're not normal you are one in a billion," Allan told her she pulled me from the room, we ran down the corridors as fast as possible 

"Jess, Hanna" Spike yelled but we kept running, we didn't know where we were going we just knew that we had to get away, the lull was over now.